In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she w... (Full plot summary below)
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In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end.
Leave your thoughts about Sunset Boulevard.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSunset Boulevard remains the best drama ever made about the movies because it sees through the illusions, even if Norma doesn't. |
| Window to the MoviesJeffrey ChenThe best thing about watching old movies is discovering the ones that feel so modern that, with a few touches here and there, barely altering the original product, they could actually fit right in with the quality movies of today. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullA demented circus of obsession, greed, and Hollywood |
| Lawrence Journal-WorldJon NiccumThe ultimate depiction of Hollywood burnout |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisA virtually unimpeachable fugue for all manner of Hollywood deaths, those of people, minds, careers, dreams, and baboons. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka then-unprecedented throwing back of the velvet curtain to reveal the exciting, but often sordid and dehumanizing, mechanics that run the Hollywood dream factory |
| F5 (Wichita, KS)Jake EukerMarvelous Hollywood-on-Hollywood satire, balanced exquisitely between All About Eve and Mulholland Drive. |
| Film and FeltGabe LeibowitzFew pictures are greater than Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder's scathing assault on Hollywood's magnetism, aura, and fear of watching it pass you by... |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealA concentration of classic filmmaking at its peak, a specimen of director Billy Wilder at the razor's edge of his brilliance. |
| The Age (Australia)Jake WilsonThe conception owes something to Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, but the film builds a myth of its own, one that taps into something essential about stardom. |
